Alucard; If you are hoping neb to make difference then you are very sadly mistaken. The fist step in solving the problem is admitting that the problem exist and how is neb going to do that when he does his best to deny it.
Well said Alucard. Wise words yourself. However, much though it pains me to agree in any way even partly with gworld, the first part of his response is probably right - the first step is to admit to serious problems and Admins can't do that. The second part is wrong - neb is one of the few at a high level that does recognise the flaws. But like everyone else needing and demanding change, they are likely flogging a dead horse. You know how near impossible getting even small changes through can be and anything major will simply get blocked by a big enough gang of die hards. I think it is a losing battle now unfortunately and no-one can turn the tide. Shouldn't stop one trying though. I did an exercise earlier today - in the last 10 weeks DMOZ has lost 4 metas and 6 editalls net. There are another 4 (I think) senior editors about to time out in the next 7 days, and about 30 more who haven't edited anything in over a month and in some cases a lot longer. I am also told the internal forums are exceptionally quiet compared to the days of old and have been for some time, not just summer holidays.
So that is why my addition of new sites has received so much attention - since I like to do that during single night it must have been noticed from galaxies all around us. I can backup this up since it took several days to get single opinion for simple question about one gambling site since I wasn't too sure what to write in rejection (beside wrong language, zero real content, smells like affiliate/doorway).
Wow. Even the people that were the most invested in the ODP are jumping ship. A combination of internecine strife, and the vastly decreased importance of a DMOZ link for ranking purposes is behind it all, if I can venture a guess. Editors can say they don't care about Google, and that they are proud to be building a directory indenpendently of Google. However, the more honest ones will admit to themselves at least, if rarely in public, that a lot of their satisfaction comes from the belief that you are helping the important search engine do a better job. Some might even admit that if they are not helping search engines, they are pretty much wasting their time - but you won't find many that brutally frank. And if what they are doing, as it turns out, is not especially useful, valuable, and recognized, they editors become less willing to tolerate the lunatic, paranoid senior editors, corruption, mysterious dismissals, and obligation to unquestioningly kowtow.
No, you last edited 20 Aug 06 11:33 EDT. Silly me, trying to look up ishfish. Actually, you may be right thinking about it - I am going by last logons - doesn't mean they actually did any editing. That makes it even worse - 30+ senior editors who haven't even logged on in the last month, 10%.